Weather-guard for windows.



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WEATHER GUARD FOR WINDOWS.

APPLICATION FILED MAB. a, 191g.

jilg, Patented DEG. 16,1913.

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ALFRED H. NEWPHER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, -AS'SIGNOR'TG THE .ADAMS-8cWESTLAKE CGMPANY, A CORPORATIN'GF ILLINOIS.

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Specioaton of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 16, 1913.

To all 'whom t may concern Be it known that I, ALFRED H. NEWPHER, acitizen of the United States, and resident of Chicago, county of Cook,and State of lllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Weather-Guards for Windows, of which the following is aspecification, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings,forming a part thereof. 4

rEhe invention relates to a weather guard adapted for attachment to thelower edge of the bottom rail of a window sash. 1t is especially adaptedfor use in connection with the windows of railway cars, though it may beapplied to other windows.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple, cheap, and yeteiicient guard to exclude drafts, moisture and dust at the bottom ot thewindow; and it consists of a device as hereinafter described and asillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Fi re 1 is a detailsectional perspective of t lower rails of a pair of sashes equipped withthe improved weather guard and of the window sill; Fig. 2 is a detailbottom plan view of the weather guard; and Fig. 3 is a transversevertical section through the bottom rail of a sash showing a modiiedform of construction.

There is shown in the drawings a pair of sashes 10, 11, of a so-calleddouble sash window, and at 12 a window sill, here represented as made ofsheet metal.

The weather guard comprises a concav metal plate 13, which is fittedwithin a correspondingly shaped channel in the bottom rail 14 ot thesash and is secured to this rail by any suitable means, such as screws15. 'lhe plate 18 projects outwardly beyond the outer face or thesashrail, as shown at 16, and is '-,folded back against the rail, which ispreferably rabbeted, as shown at 17, to form a shoulder against whichthe edge of the plate bears. A sheet of rubber or other suit-able sottmaterial, shown at 18, is a plied to the concave face ot the plate 13,its width being such that it projects beyond the forward extension 16 ofthe metal plate and there presents a lat face to the sill 12. The innermargin of the sheet 18 is downwardly directed by the curvature of theplate 13, so that it presents its edge to the sill. The sheet 18 issecured in place by an outer curved plate 19, which is secured in placeas by screws 20 extending into the `sash rail. The width of the plate 19is such that it does not make contact with the sill 12 at either of itsedges, the contacts with the sill being only by the two margins of thesheet 18.

The construction described provides two lines oi contact of the softmaterial with the sill, the one adjacentthe outer face and the otheradjacent the inner face of the sash rail, thus edectually excluding theweather and dust. A further advantage in the c0nstruction described isthat it provides a reinforcement for the bottom of the sash rail at itsouter edge. Window sills are usually inclined downwardly and outwardlyand the bottom of the sash is given the same inclination. lt has beenthe practice to form an outwardly extending lip at the lower edge of thesash rail, and in practice difficulty has been encountered in securingan accurate dt et the sash rail to the sill and as a result thisoutwardly extending lip is liable to be split od". The plate 13 not onlyprovides alproper backing for the soft or pad sheet, but it reinforcesthe sash rail at this weak point.

While l prefer to use rubber as the sealing material, any other softsubstance, such as felt, may be employed. Both sashes of a car windowmay be similarly equipped with the improved guard, as shown in thedrawings, and the metal plates may be given thenecessary conguration toinsure a contact ot b (tlth margins of the sealing sheet with the s1 A 1claim as my invention'- 1. A curved late adapted for attachment to thelower e ge of a window sash and to project beyond the outer; facethereof and having its outer margin recurved backwardly to 't againstthe outer faceof the sash, a sheet of soft material fitted to theconcave tace of the metal plate and extending beyond the same at bothmargins, and

a curved binding plate for securing the sheet in place. v

2. A curved plate adapted for attachment 5 to the lower edge of aWindow'sash and to project beyond the outer face thereof and having itsouter margin recurved back.

Wardly to fit against the outer face of the sash, a sheet of softmaterial fitted' to and secured against the concave face of the 10 metalplate and extending to the outer margin of said plate.

ALFRED H. NEWPHER. Witnesses:

Loms K. GILLsoN, E. M. KLATGHER.

